In the meantime, let’s revel in the snow we got this past week. It was a big dump, for sure, with Chicago recording 18.3 inches of snow during the nine-day stretch from Feb. 3 to Feb. 11.

That nine-day snow event ties a record for consecutive days of measurable snow — a tie with records set in 2009 and 1902.

The National Weather Service Chicago is making us work for snow totals in Kane County — providing totals for three snow events and actually forcing us to use addition to come up with the totals for various communities.

Very unofficially (since there’s math involved), here are the top five Kane County snow totals for the three snow events of Feb. 5, Feb. 8-9 and Feb. 11:

Top 5 Kane County

St. Charles (Kane) — 2.3 + 7.4 (2) + 4.7 = 14.4 inches

GENEVA 4WSW (KANE) — 3.0 + 7.8 + 3.0 = 13.8 inches

Sugar Grove 1NE (Kane) — 2.9 + 6.7 (2) + 3.5 = 13.1 inches

Elgin 2W (Kane) — 2.4 + 7.0 (2) + 3.5 = 12.9 inches

Batavia (Kane) — 2.4 + 6.6 (2) + 2.9 = 11.9 inches

Fast Facts

There were numerous snow events across northern Illinois and northwest Indiana to start February 2018, highlighted by the winter storm on Feb. 8-9 that produced widespread snowfall of one-half to 1 foot.

Chicago experienced an impressive nine straight days with measurable snow from Feb. 3-11, 2018, which ties a record set in 2009 and 1902. During this nine-day stretch Chicago received 18.3 inches of snow.

Rockford, IL also experienced nine straight days with measurable snow from Feb. 3-11, 2018, which breaks the record of seven days set twice in January of 1994. During this nine-day stretch Rockford received 16.1 inches of snow.